Post: Chelsea vs. Barcelona in the Women’s Champions League, a power outage interrupted the game and the VAR live broadcast signal was lost.

On November 22, the Post reported that in the Women’s Champions League, Chelsea Women’s Football Team 1-1 Barcelona Women’s Football Team, but during the game, the match was suspended due to a power outage.

The score was even at that time and the game was suddenly interrupted. The temperature in west London was close to freezing, and all communication systems in the stadium suddenly lost power, including VAR and live broadcast signals from BBC and Disney+.

BBC2 and iPlayer viewers saw blank screens and error messages, saying "we apologize for the interruption and are working to resolve the issue."

On 5Live, former Chelsea star Fran Kirby expressed regret for the poor viewing experience caused by technical issues: "As a player , it was a bit strange to see the game suspended due to camera failure. Of course, we hope that people can enjoy the game at home, but in the end the players are still on the field, and the players definitely don’t want to stop on such a cold night.”

The game had to be suspended at two degrees low temperature. Both teams had to wait about five minutes until the referee confirmed that the system was back to normal. At this point, Barcelona had regained its balance and headed into halftime after nine minutes of stoppage time. The first time VAR intervened after the blackout was when Chelsea were looking for the winning goal. Catarina Macario came on as a substitute and immediately scored with a header. However, after a long wait, VAR confirmed that the American star was slightly offside and the goal was invalid.